The modern-day countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico were all once widely occupied by the Maya people. Although you will find Mayan sites near Playa del Carmen or Tulum, Mexico and ...

However, recently, a group of researchers, led by Dr. Stemp, have uncovered the first ever Mayan tattooing implements in Actun Uayazaba Kab cave in Belize. The findings are published in the ...

A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.

Leaders and members of the Maya community engaged with the new Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Dr. Louis Zabaneh yesterday in ...

The Mayan civilization dates back to 2000 B.C., and extended through what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize ... hotels were filling up quickly. "People are excited about it," she said.

Mexico has agreed to send a delegation to Belize to finalize discussions had this morning between Prime Minister John Briceno ...

He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE covering the ... the hills and forests of Belize on Monday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited ancient Mayan ruins at an archaeological ...

but Mayan tattooing tools had never been found. James Stemp at Keene State College in New Hampshire and his team analysed two fragments of stone discovered in the late 1990s in a cave in Belize.

The village sits on the site of Pusilha, an ancient Maya city. Between 1928 and 1931, British Museum expeditions removed carved stelae, altars, pottery, and even human remains-without consent from the ...